I'm voting for Hillary

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Tuesday February 09, 2016 · 9:42 AM PST

2016/02/09 · 09:42

Hilllary is a shape-shifter. She has strong ties to Wall Street. She lies. She panders and she bullies. She is a centrist party Dem.

I like that in a politician. Those are her strengths.

Hillary will take zero republicans and most Dems in Congress and she will move the ball down the field. She won’t get everything, but she will get something. She might do better than Obama because Obama wasted years in the delusion that the GOP would work with him. She knows they won’t. I’m voting for Hillary because she will flatter and attack and schmooze and kiss and logroll and pander and threaten and lie and take notes and kick ass, and she will get something done.

Bernie hasn’t shown me that he would even consider doing this, so he would get zero republicans and a handful of Dems and he will get nothing done at all.

Texas Shooting Spree Not News

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Monday May 27, 2013 · 5:37 AM PDT

2013/05/27 · 05:37

There was a random shooting spree in Texas on Sunday morning. Two are dead, including the gunman, and five are wounded, including an deputy. The gunman carried an assault weapon with the usual supply of ammo, plus other firearms. I hope we will learn more about this horror, but that is not why I am writing this.

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Sunday November 18, 2012 · 9:19 AM PST

2012/11/18 · 09:19

The great question in America is, and always has been, the rights of its citizens. Who is counted among 'we, the people', and to what degree? How can a nation dedicated to liberty tolerate, even defend, slavery and discrimination for 250 years? Liberty was first claimed by and for white men of property. America's progress is measured in the extension of that liberty to all Americans.

Are we now living in a time of great change, a time when we can see the arc of the moral universe bend more towards justice?

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Wednesday September 19, 2012 · 9:45 PM PDT

2012/09/19 · 21:45

Mitt Romney's 47% speech dominates the news. Democrats attack and Republicans defend. Some Republicans criticize while others praise Romney's remarks. Many people suggest that Romney won't be hurt by his disdainful dismissal of 47% of America, a fraction that in truth contains many voters whom he expects to win. It won't hurt him, they say, because those Republicans in the 47% will assume that he is not talking about them at all, that he is talking about those brown people who have for so long served as Republican scapegoats. Those who say Romney might not be hurt are wrong, because they underestimate the effectiveness of the Republican message. Follow me below the fold.

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Friday March 23, 2012 · 1:48 PM PDT

2012/03/23 · 13:48

Just when you think that Newt Gingrich could go no lower, he has found a way to call Obama a Muslim without outright calling him a Muslim. Just a short diary from work; I expect we will hear more about this. Below the Gnocchi of Power:

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Saturday January 21, 2012 · 1:08 PM PST

2012/01/21 · 13:08

Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) is facing a tough fight against Elizabeth Warren, a well-know advocate for middle and working-class Americans. Sen. Brown, however, is expressing his own concern for their interests.

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Scott Brown is:

49 votes Vote Now!

Scott Brown is:

Stupid.

9 votes

Evil.

1 vote

Stupid and Evil.

38 votes

A friend of the working man.

1 vote

Rick Perry ducking debates?

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Thursday October 27, 2011 · 10:14 AM PDT

2011/10/27 · 10:14

Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reports that Perry is considering skipping at least some future debates because they are so unfair. Should we call the whaaambulance?

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Monday October 24, 2011 · 6:18 PM PDT

2011/10/24 · 18:18

ThinkProgress reports that in 2004 and 2006 Herman Cain lent his voice and his money to a series of ads run on black radio stations that accused Democrats of wanting to kill black babies and linking them to ex-KKK leader David Duke. The controversial ads were disavowed by the Bush administration and the RNC at the time.

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Sunday April 18, 2010 · 11:42 AM PDT

2010/04/18 · 11:42

The Peak Oil theory holds that the world's oil reserves are being depleted and that we will, in the near future, be unable to meet even today's demand for crude oil. The theory has its adherents and deniers. Conservatives are of course among the deniers, presumably since accepting the theory would mean making dislocating changes for big business, big energy, and the American people. But what if Peak Oil is correct? And what if the military thinks it might be correct?

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 10:56 PM PDT

2010/03/24 · 22:56

He was our greatest President, the transcendent figure of the 19th century, perhaps the greatest American of us all. When he came to office secession was underway and his opponents had sworn and prepared armed revolution against him. If any leader ever had cause to excoriate his foes and threaten bloody retribution, it was he. What, then, did he say?

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Monday March 22, 2010 · 9:02 PM PDT

2010/03/22 · 21:02

Now that this modest health insurance reform bill has passed - and all credit to Speaker Pelosi for it - let us turn to the re-regulation of banks. It is obvious to all of us on Planet Normal that bank deregulation gave people of ordinary greed and stupidity the chance to turn a recession into a slide to the knife edge of world financial collapse. We need to return to financial regulation not because bankers are more stupid and venal than average, but because they are exactly as stupid and venal as average and so too unreliable to operate without public oversight. Financial regulation should be Obama's next domestic priority.

In addition to the wisdom of the policy itself, the effort will produce the pleasing spectacle of the Republicans going into the November elections loudly defending both the health insurance industry AND Wall Street banks. I can't wait.

Buchanan is right. This white man is full of resentment.

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Thursday July 16, 2009 · 7:21 PM PDT

2009/07/16 · 19:21

I am a white man, an old white man, a rich old white man, by any reasonable measure; and Pat Buchanan is right. I am full of resentment. Let me tell you what I resent.

I resent a jackass like Pat Buchanan busting a vein about how white working men suffer when an 'undeserving' poor woman like Sonia Sotomayor gets ahead in the world by virtue of her own ability and her own skills.

I resent Buchanan saying she didn't deserve her admission, her grades, her awards, her editorship, her success as a lawyer, as a judge. If I could reach through the Internet tubes I would smack him silly.

More of my resentments below the fold.

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I'm voting for Hillary

Texas Shooting Spree Not News

A New Birth of Freedom

The Shame of the 47%

Newt: Why does Obama behave in ways that make people think he's a Muslim?

Scott Brown Fears for the Working Family

Rick Perry ducking debates?

Cain Linked to Racist Ads

War for Oil: The Military and Peak Oil

The better angels of our nature

Now Financial Regulation - Let the Repubs froth

Buchanan is right. This white man is full of resentment.